This OFF META team is SO UNIQUE! • Pokemon Scarlet/Violet VGC Battles

[@CybertronVGC]

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[@russellg9622]

Every time Aaron says “free switch in” when his Pokémon dies it reminds how I comfort myself in fighting games when I drop a combo it’s a “tactical reset”. 😂

[@dariuscarter4244]

I swear nowadays when I hear creators mention good chip I'm like uh....wasnt it other person Intent to make a good block/resist 🤣?

[@kaemonbonet4931]

It's a West Coast set up!

[@uwabamiJohnny]

I love the classic American Reset

[@xsah2]

Sometimes it is actually a free switch in when you want something to die though if it’s just wasting time being on the field

[@russellg9622]

@@xsah2 I know and sometimes it actually is good in fighting games to reset a combo instead of dealing very scaled damage. It’s just the way he says it, reminds me of how I comfort myself so I keep a cool head during the fight and don’t get upset.

[@ValasHune]

You killed it as a caster at the Charlotte event! Your videos have the same educational vibe as your casting, making it easier to understand what's happening. As a newer player I really appreciate how you do your work.

[@eternalsnowman8217]

Thanks for featuring my team again! I wish I could have showcased this team myself on stream, but glad you are giving it some love. It was a super unique team not only in the mons but the way it played, feels very different from a lot of the meta, and was a pretty strong call for Portland.

[@CybertronVGC]

You’re such an incredible team builder, can’t wait to see what you cook up next! Thanks for sharing the team 😊

[@DenHoodious]

@@CybertronVGCcyber I am making a team that can use simple beam dondozo when it’s finished i can hit ya up if you want to show case it

[@Tine_of_Nice_Dreams]

Super creative, never thought I would see these mons in this format!

[@Zylefer]

I've been testing with Magmar on my own team for a bit now, then I see randomly on my KZbin feed that someone else has already done it and I was like "God damn it I'm not unique" 😂

[@wario1226]

The Draco miss in game 4 is really inspiring. The way you talk through unfortunate circumstances and see the positives in everything helps my mental game a lot.

[@johnbyrne8128]

Impeccable coms over the weekend at Charlotte. Really elevates the matches you call. Also you and Nekkra work really well together! (Bad luck losing to Lickitung!!!) Also I was glad to see you call a Brendan win, I feel like the last few times you've called his games he has lost!

[@CybertronVGC]

Thank you so much for watching and the kind words, it means the world to me! Was definitely happy to get to cast Brendan winning

[@noe5740]

Hey Aaron just wanted to say that I loved your commentary at the Charlotte Regional Championships, especially in the top 8 match between Stephen and Arbin! Keep up the good work!

[@CybertronVGC]

Thank you so much for watching!!!

[@jotarokujo3603]

I second this. I would love to see more of Aaron and other pro players who have a solid understanding of the game as casters.

[@AbraxasVMZ]

Looking Aaron talking in his brothers game was so wholesome, I get a lot of hype, u are a very good given comentary in the tournaments, I hope u still doing it in the future tournaments

[@mewtationssb]

Hey man! Was nice to see you commentating again. :) I was at Charlotte too, got 88th, but unfortunately I never got to say hi to you. I actually sat next to Brendan at 4-0 haha. Keep up the great content and I hope to see you at a future regional!

[@Chickoboy]

88th is really good, congtatulations

[@Mossbergg]

your casting this weekend was incredible !! could tell you were enjoying yourself and glad youre back!

[@CybertronVGC]

Thank you so much, really appreciate it :)

[@easyparisiVGC]

Hey Aaron! I was Joe from battle number 3! It was super cool to see your perspective on the game and to see those calcs as well! I actually grabbed that rental team from your video 15 mins prior to playing you LOL. Amazing battle and keep up the amazing work as always!

[@WeAreToasty]

QotD: Gouging Fire! I ran into it at Charlotte this weekend and it was really difficult to take down alongside Kingambit. It makes me really want to try this Gouging + Gambit core in the future and it has a lot of potential. I hope you get to show off Wolfey's winning team soon!

[@joshuavgc4160]

Aaron Thank you so much for taking time to shake my hand and take a selfie with me at Charlotte! It was one of the biggest highlights of my weekend and will treasure the memory forever!! Thanks for starting my competitive journey and keep up the great work.

[@scottcrysel]

love getting the off-meta showcase teams, especially one that actually performed well at an open teamsheet tourney! and speaking of off-meta, shoutout to your brother for the Iron Jugulis at Charlotte lol

[@znzn06]

54:50 🥲🥲🥲🥲 really interesting team! surprised at how much of an mvp magmar was...!! also this is a little late, but thank you for the hard work at charlotte!! i really really enjoyed your casting, it's making me want to step out of just being a spectator and try out some local matches here in singapore. i couldn't watch the tournament live due to timezones but catching up with the archive was always a treat - especially during your younger brother's match. it was so wholesome and such a joy to see 🥹 i also hope to see more this year - both your casting and your plays! all the best with your future tournaments!!! (qotd - i love poison tera leavanny (sewaddle is my all time favorite) but it just doesn't seem to do well in doubles :( if i had to really pick, maybe assault vest archaludon..!!! ☔🌧💧)

[@CybertronVGC]

thank you so much for taking the time to write such a kind and thoughtful comment, I really appreciate it!!! hope you can check out an event in Singapore sometime, I really encourage it 😊

[@garumba5]

Dang, didn't realize that Magmar and Electabuzz got access to Follow Me again in VGC. What a throwback to Gen 5.

[@0Scar9728]

QOTD: Gyarados. It feels underwhelming at first glance, but having a switch-in into chien pao/entei/urshifu with intimidate is really good right now. It can do very well against the classic rillaboom/incineroar/urshifu core, and can stop farigiraf or incineroar with taunt

[@ahaze131]

Charlotte regionals was a very fun weekend and I encourage everybody to check out a regional if they get the chance to. Really enjoyed watching the matches. Got a 6-3 finish and hope to day 2 next time.

[@joneselmundo8311]

I love your nice, kind and competitive mindset. I honestly watch all of your videos. Keep being yourself ❤❤

[@Endershock1678]

QOTD: I like Scream Tail a lot. As a support Pokémon, it enables so many Pokémon to just go off by rendering some Pokémon utterly useless through Encore or Disable. Ah, Choice Specs Flutter Mane is threatening my Raging Bolt with Moonblast. Let me just disable that real quick. Ah, you brought in Incineroar to Fake Out my Ogerpon. Keep doing that.

[@ParroTiest]

QOTD: Idk if this counts as “unique” but I think Grimmsnarl is a bit unique, as well as it’s screens. I haven’t seen much people use grimmsnarl for screens even tho it cuts damage in half and it really does help mons set up and just demolish their team. A probable reason why people don’t use screens as much now is because of urshifu, but there is a lot of things you can do to go around it, including tera. I also do know that a lot of people don’t like the slow style, but for those who does, grimmsnarl is great

[@berndbonobo2465]

Hey guys, I just recently came back to vgc after I played a lot during the ORAS and X/Y era. I really like Kommo-o, so I am really happy you reviewed this team. I wonder if there are any teams which make kommo-o viable in a physically offensive way, since I really think he has great coverage..?

[@johnnywts]

Great video as always; enjoy your commentating in the VGC Charlotte Regionals, makes the game so much more fun to watch😸

[@davidassato4367]

1:12:34 you always have the most gentle ways of calling your opponent dumb

[@toastytoast6749]

This team reminds me of the houndoom grumpig team you showed off a while ago with how unique yet effective the pokemon are. Awesome team!

[@MeerPatManor]

Just wanted to bring it to your attention. You were worried about Lando-I's substitute staying up in Game 5, but your Primarina's Hyper Voice hits right through the sub for huge super effective damage.

[@kitoesa4000]

Get that sponsor money Aaron you deserve it. Loved hearing you cast for Brenden at Charlotte

[@mnsportz]

i made a team that used elektabuzz in the exact same way his team uses magmar. its cute. they both get follow me/helping hand as well as having statis on contact. (magmars is probably better) theyre actually pretty useful.

[@GUT5S]

Amazing commentary at Charlotte Aaron!! Can't wait to see the next time you compete too! 😸

[@CybertronVGC]

Thank you so much for watching!!!

[@euanjones3126]

QOTD: Similar to the magmar used here, I really like to use follow me Electabuzz with eviolite! I was really surprised when it survived a double up, including a Landorus-I Life Orb Earth Power!

[@belatkuro]

9:29 It's Bulletproof, not Soundproof for the previous Kommo-o. It was for handling Flutter Mane's Shadow Ball, plus Tera Steel on the Kommo-o handles FM's Fairy moves.

[@CybertronVGC]

Yep sorry, mixed the two names up there!

[@shawngallagher8764]

Magmar has always been my favorite Pokémon and I was heartbroken when gen 6 on it couldn’t get Follow Me, I screamed when I heard it got it back and gained it’s rightful viability

[@TheShyKatana]

Man, I really love Micheal's approach to team building

[@hskikibot2846]

3:42 oh dang THATSA+ONE was in this tournament wow

[@gun_slinger6664]

Yeah and he didn't do very well as per usual. He seems to have great ideas and plays well on ladder but can never pull it off when it matters.

[@ling0s138]

Cybertron out here showing off a new team and giving an update on a recent team in the process

[@alden_bless]

I've been trying to make the most of stellar tera with malamar, to little avail. it seems like malamar can benefit quite a bit from the +1 to atk and spatk it gains from stellar tera tera blast, but I haven't found a team comp that fits yet. I've tried alolan ninetales to support malamar with aurora veil and whimsicott to support with self fake tears and tailwind. But malamar seems to take too long to build momentum and just gets chipped down too fast. but malamar has good coverage into many meta threats and can defintely output a good amount of damage. perhaps it just belongs on a trick room team, but I haven't built the right trick room team yet.

[@lavender3084]

always love to see kommo-o thriving ☺️

[@amazon_kai]

I sat next to Michael Zheng during round 7 of Portland Regionals, and had a friend who had faced him earlier that day, and to say the least everyone was caught off guard by this team 😅 And ofc he was making insane plays on top of that, which allowed him to be able to do well with such a unique team

[@joserockzvgc]

Love your content so much Aaron, keep posting these amazing teams, love to watch while I’m working out. I can only dream that one day my content is a excellent as yours

[@twitch_takeutchi]

Can’t wait to try this team too! Shoutout to your archaludon team that got me to master ball so can’t wait to test this and start making my own teams!

[@thomaswilkerson2711]

"Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites."

[@luigimanzelli3786]

when i saw Latios - Kommo-o i thought this team was running simple beam for a second :D but i guess with open team sheet it wouldn't be that good, still really cool team tho. Also agree on the prima pick, it's amazing right now, so happy i can use it successfully as it's one of my favourite starters.

[@MrPokefanatic97]

49:24 I was thinking they went with Extremespeed because they knew Scared Fire couldn't KO Kommo-o with defense boosts, but that a Dragonite Choice Band Stomping Tantrum might get the KO. The problem then is that Dragonite outspeeds Entei and you can just Follow Me with Magmar.

[@davidgumm2359]

I love how your sentence actually became one of the most recognisable intros of this community

[@voidalexandrite1465]

your videos are so fun and comforting to watch i look forward to your videos everytime you post!

[@marcguilliod3640]

QOTD, i love the players out there using squirtle and wartortle, there have been some pretty cool videos on some weird tech. non super niche pick i would say probably stamina assault vest archaludon sets.

[@jobo6673]

i used this team in wide league #36!!! i got 29th going 4-3, love the team so much

[@zerotrey]

I’ve been trying to build a team around a Zapdos since seeing in win in seniors division at worlds. Feel like there a lot of potential with it

[@zihkar]

Two things, heatwave for chip/burn chance instead of overheat ain't too shabby. Knock off is also a sweet option. Weirdly electrabuzz has the same def/spdef/hp and also gets helping hand, follow me, protect. Sadly Elebuzz doesn't do the burns and instead brings static which is nice, but burns/fire is handy.

[@patdaubert8614]

I was watching this from Joe's perspective. It's so cool seeing the same battle from each viewpoint

[@Inscribed]

Watching videos like this makes me wonder how many Eviolite users we haven't seen yet - this video got me thinking about some other Gen 1 Pokemon like Electabuzz and Scyther!

[@sempersolus5511]

QOTD: I like Landorus-I. Now that Gravity support is more easily obtainable, Lando can use Sandsear Storm to just _eat_ its enemies.

[@gun_slinger6664]

Qotd: I've been using a Quaquavale on a semi rain team and doing fairly well with it. Sitting at around 2000 in masterball rank. Water urshifu is probably better in every way but I don't want to use it and I love Quaquavale.

[@dmitryluna4221]

Awesome to see Magmar breaking the Meta laws. Hahaha! I wish we could see more old and not fully evolved mons getting some love holding an eviolite.

[@messyj9276]

there wasn't much you could do in that game 4, i think maybe going for wood hammer draco meteor into corviknight on it's first turn using roost might have put it at low enough health for a grassy glide knockout follow up. Not sure what the numbers are there. But with flutter mane and the ogre in the back it's still a tricky situation!

[@xenongamer7810]

Okay, i'll love if someone explained me, because i don't really know why you would run flash cannon instead of iron head in kommo-o for example, because it has better atk that Spatk, they do the same damage, and it counters flatter mane way better than flash cannon since it is physical instead of special. I just find it off in the set idk

[@cellgoondude]

My favorite unique pick is Weezing right now. Unique kinda but neutralizing gas goes hard.

[@cheese6709]

Would be sick to see a team around toxtriciry

[@Quartermistress]

QOTD: Rhyperior has been my fave so far. Has a decently wide move pool loves trick room and can mitigate its weaknesses with tera and solid rock. Assault vest or weakness policy seem to be the way to go.

[@daweidaweibljat1928]

This team made me come back to scarlet/violet. Thank you!

[@joecartin7215]

QOTD: I’m a big fan of the position Gyarados is in at the moment. I was the only D2 Gyarados at Charlotte, but I feel like it’s much better than that! Bonus answer, I also had Latios on my team, which is well positioned into lando-I like you mentioned. Also the only D2 Latios, and the next highest Iron Hands after Donnelly. I know you’ve already used my friend PTPs Gouging Fire team, but I was using support Howl. I’d pass the team off in a heartbeat!

[@joecartin7215]

Woah! And you play him in this video! What’re the odds

[@dytabytes]

Oh wow, this team is so cool!

[@recon13ful]

PLEASE DO THE BRENDAN ZHENG TEAM WITH IRON JUGGULIS!!!!

[@flyekitescharlie]

Whats that calc your using? It doesn’t look like Showdowns one cause of the colours not being dark 😅 49:46

[@Twilightblade7]

Oh nice a fun video so soon after Charlotte! I appreciate the variety of options you are showing with primarina. Do you think it has more chops in BO1 or is there a particular reason you don't see as much of it in BO3?

[@DSpiritwolf]

I'm not sure I get the logic of tyranitar with sand stream. I get that it makes it extra bulky but i feel like it doesn't mesh well with grassy terrain and soul dew very much.

[@DanielDeLeon69]

I Like Those Pokémon In The Thumbnail Shot!😊

[@jplopez253]

I'm a simple man: I see Latios, I click

[@ambermind3233]

never clicked on a youtube notification so quickly!

[@BrendanWebbFtB]

Why does latios have 12 hp Evs? Whats the calc that enables over just 4 HP and 4 in defences

[@rysananimation]

I played against someone that whiffed two draco meteors in a row right before watching this. The pain is universal

[@sunbro7853]

Hey man I’m just getting into team building. I have Garchomp and Talonflame and Chief pao as a core. What else would I use?😅

[@Fishstux]

Cybertron with a sponsor? good for you man good for you

[@Jasiah1223]

Hey guys Aaron Cyberteon Zheng here and this video is sponsored by me my contact is amazing From-Jasiah a BigCybertonVGC Fan

[@theonlyg8818]

I just beat this team on showdowns, i had no clue wtf I was lookin at

[@Voicelet]

For a TR team to place that high, I'd say Gallade is very intriguing.

[@Maczu_PIkczu]

Maybe show Wolfey's team from Charlotte Regionals. I'm very interested

[@DFPWeaponX]

Amazing timing. I needed this. Thank you sir and I would subscribe to a channel where you posted your practice sessions with these teams... just saying hint hint lol

[@theprogram1950]

Magmar is my favorite mon, ty

[@PurpleSlays]

What does the latios item do?

[@SerDerpish]

I think that if you are able to ignore Protect you shouldn’t be able to use it

[@lilpoetat]

Thanks 🎉

[@anibalduarte4607]

Im loving this team!

[@kuromushimura2841]

Me, liking the video even before I watch it, just as always

[@TheTrueLatios]

Finally… Latios is getting some love😊

[@rxn277]

What a unique team!

[@david_the_goose4742]

QOTD Oranguru with blood moon

[@Ceridane]

Can you feature a hatterene team in a future video?

[@nicholasperry2302]

Hot take, id love a format where any pokemon over 500 BST is banned. The power creep teams of 6 mons with gargantuan stats makes the hundreds of other choices kind of moot. Yeah you CAN make something weaker work, why do it? Its generally just harder and less consistant. Id love a lower power format

[@Infected_Truths]

Kleavor ❤

[@Bruh-pk6ei]

Blink twice if your sponsor is holding you at gunpoint

[@ciscoortega9789]

Follow Me Magmar is back!!

[@STON3D1_Stonks]

Stop lying you ain't never play no damn Royal Match lmao

[@LLOYDFUNGUIS]

That Rillaboom mustve been looking at all the other meta Rillaboom teams and been very very confused

[@TristamWolf]

New video yay! As someone new to VGC (hoping to play my first event in Knoxville soon) I find your sections breaking down different teams and why certain 'mons are being brought to be SUPER useful. I legitimately think that, if I win any games at all in Knoxville, you will be a large part of making that happen.

[@CybertronVGC]

Thanks a ton, I'm rooting for you at Knoxville!

[@Joeybanananas]

That game against Entei with the Magmar survival was crazy. Pokemon can really be a game of inches sometimes

[@peco595]

My favorite unique Pokemon to use(though my whole team besides Ogerpon(though it's rock type) is unique) has been Sandy Shocks It gets electroweb now which is fun, I've put tera bug on it because it's one of the few types that made sense, and it gets gravity. Using gravity lets me justify using zap cannon on it, it lets me justify using inferno on my Houndoom, and it synergizes with triple axel on Quaquaval All around pretty fun to use

[@darkcheaker]

Can someone help me with those IV spreads with 4 IV in like hp and def? Are those relevant in any meaningful way?

[@SharkTooth57]

A doubles team with almost all the mons having protect, In 2024?!?!?!?! Whoa dude!

[@MiffedKitten]

Whoaaaa the team looks cool! Also um... I wish someone makes Rampardos work 🥺